Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-02-21
BREEZES BLOWN FROM
BOSTON.
The "Two Sans in Boston.

1no 1.-TWO Sans IN Boston.
III Boston, Mass, Feb. IL, 81.
The strong religious wave which has
touched so many portions of this country
during the present winter, is now bearing
in upon this city with daily increasing
force. All winter the Baptist churches
about Boston have been doing more or
less special work, and excellent results
are reported. In the Methodist churches
quiet, earnest, honest endeavor to push
on Christ's work has been persistently
maintained.
An attempt was made to organize union
services, embracing all denominations
which desired to participate in the reviv-
al work. Failing in this, the Methodists,
unassisted, without any encouragement
from other churches, called to this city
the Georgia evangelists, Revs. Jones and
Small, familiarly known as THE Two
Sans"
For nearly three weeks these two men
have preached two (most of the time
IN NUNS XII " do b4stb OCPAN
as can be closely packed into the buildings
where services are held. Every noontime
finds the great Faneuil Hall one dense mass
of humanity. These sermons are for men
only, and the audience is a curious mix
ture - merchants, bankers, brokers;
butchers in their long white aprons, fresh
from their stalls in. the market close by;
roxn,o ,r1,O hos ol.oox, tn,
their usual lunch to listen to the
hOmely, honest words of one of the evan
gelists. Not a man has gone once who
has not heard some sentence which seem
ed spoken specially to fit his own case.
At fremont Temple an immense audi
ence has gathered daily. Sometimes the
talk has been exclusively for wives,
sometimes for mothers, sometimes for
daughters. And there have been solid
chunks of wisdom for every one to carry
away; earnest words for every thinking
person to hide i'll her heart II ponder
on; plain, practical Christian truths to
stir to activity the careless and indiffer-
ent. Every afternoon and night services
have been held in The Peoples Church."
and in one and another of the ariou
Methodist churches about the city. L am
told that the Peoples church seats three
thousand. Last night after the building
was full the crowd left out was so dense
it was dispersed by policemen. At no
night service has the building been large
enough to accommodate all who asked
admission.
The history of these two men is an in
teresting one. Jones was the son of a
poor, but an honest Christian. His home
was in Gainesville, Ga, a typical south
ern village, where, after the war, Iawless-
ness, drunkenness, gambling, all held full
sway Despite the prayers of father and
mother; despite the tears of a sorrowing
vile, Sam Jones went on ''having a good
time, sowing his wild oats" All, me!
they aCere wild oats, and he had provided
for an abundant harvest. Death brought
rest to the W~eary-hearted mother. but he
called no halt in his downward career.
Finally he was summoned home to hear
the last goodbye, to listen to the last ap-
peal for mercy from his fathers Iips-his
father, whose gray hairs his son had
brought in sorrow to the grave. Stand
ing there, on the brink of that narrow
stream which separates US from ssBeulah
Land" this ''prodigall son came to aim
self, and did in very deed ''arise and 90
to his Father, God"
1t was no easy matter to cast out from
his life all the demons which habit had
called about him. Old companions stood
ready to scott, to sneer, to caioIe him
into turning back. But the very qualities
which made him a very bad man while he
walked in the ways of the ungodly. were
aids to a strongly marked Christian de.
velopment.
For some time he labored in small mar
ishes, preaching to such a flock as he
could gather. But Ibis fame went
throughout all that land, and calls came
from broader fields.
For several years. think four or five
he has done little except evangeIistic
work. In Nashville, Tenn, two wears
ago, he preached for weeks in a tent
which would accommodate 1910 people.
+4OtAS ms VIZ HSdIA duA ODeVed the
call, "Choose We this day whom We will
serve" were several men who were grow
ing rich selling whiskey at wholesale.
Believing that faith without works is
dead" they set about putting their own
houses in order before turning their at
tention to those of their ~neighbors and
their first work was to roll into their back
yards and knock out the heads of the nu-
merous barrels of whiskey stored in their
cellars.
I've often had it thrown up to me that
when Massachusetts abolished slavery she
sold her slaves to traders down south.
and couldn't deny 1t. When 1 heard
about those converted rumsellers. |
couldn't help wishing there had arisen in
that day, so far in the past, a Sam Jones
VINO could have preached into New En-
gland slave owners hearts a religion
which would have compelled them to set
the ondmen free, not sell him into perpet-
ual slavery.